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The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-05-19

Ten thousand immigrants landed in
New York in one day last week.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-05-19
New Millinery Goods |!
FOR
Spring & Summer.
MRS. K. f. ANDERSON

Mis-. Z. F. ANDERSON
Has received a large and comp etc stock
Of the latest and most stylish Millinery
Goods for Spring and Summer which car,
not tail to please. At no season has her
stock ever been more elegant and beautiful
Tome and examine her lovely spring Hats
and Bonnets and get the pick of her stock
MRS K F ANDERSON
Marietta. Mar 3lst. 1897.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-05-19

A Hudson young man has been
arrested for "pure laziness' and be-
ING . '1sa6 UQ06 bic iSsbea
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-05-19

lfall people would pay as they 90
there would be less going and more
paying - LoSoeA Cai@.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Glover and Turnips.

Mr.. John Tucker writes as follows in
the Farm Journal: "Cure some clover
for the hogs to eat next winter. Cut it
when in full blossom and put it where
it can be had, so the hogs can be
foddered with it twice a day. My hogs
will almost winter on it. They will eat
it as hay, or better if cut and wetted,
with little bran or meal put on it. A
corn man may laugh at my notion, but
/ will beat him in pigs in the spring
and in profits in the fall. Turnips have
made the English breeds of sheep.
They are nation of turnips and we of
corn. They beat us in both breeding
and making mutton and beef because
we rely on concentrated and heating
foods and they on those more sue.
culent, or at least they combine a great
deal of succulent food with other
Very few Americans know that the
best of mutton can be made on turnips
alone, and not any more know that the
cheapest and best crop is turnips."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

And it also has the same effect on the
bowels which oil meal has, and gives
to the coat the same bright and healthy
appearance. Timothy, on the con-
trary, is constipating and when fed to
sheep freely will make them constipated
and cause the stretches. | had few
valuable sheep which were kept until
very old, as they were worth more for
breeders than to slaughter, and one
winter would have lost them but for
clover hay. Mine was all gone and
they began to pine and run down,
getting weak, but new lot of clover
hay revived them and they went
through and raised their lambs. Sheep
will not stand too much grain, as it
makes them feverish, and when they
get in this condition their wool will
start loose and grain does not seem to
do them much good. My neighbors
who raise the best lambs depend on
clover hay more than on all other kinds
of food 1t also makes the best
manure. There need be no waste, as
the breeding mare and colts will eat all
of the stems. A good plan is to feed
this in rack in the yard while they
are out to stir around. Rough days
feed it in the stables.-F. ID. Curtis,
IN Tribune
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Choice of Churns.

Mr.. A. w. Cheever, a practical dairy
man of extended experience, remarks
that good butter is less dependent upon
the kind of churn than upon any of a
dozen or more requisites; "A skilled hand
will produce fine article, even with a
bowl and spoon or stick to stir the
cream. Nevertheless, he adds, in the
Ne,o England Farmer: Among the
many thousands of churns invented
there is chance for choice. After
using a number of kinds we prefer
those that have neither floats nor dash,
but bring the butter by the concus-
sion of the cream falling against the
sides or ends of the churn as it revolves
or vibrates back and forth. Churning
can be done little quicker, as rule,
in churns having floats, but time is not
of the first Importance in churning."
But whatever pattern be selected see
that it is long enough: Small churns,
or churns too nearly filled with cream,
cause deal of trouble in thousands of
dairy rooms. No churn should ever be
more than half full of cream to give
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

should have it set before them without
knowing it for what it is. Under these
conditions we believe it is legitimate
industry, as much so as making soap.
To secure these results we advocated a
small tax-enough to reimburse the
government for managing it-and that
it, and it only, could to any consider
able degree make its sale under its
label compulsory. The present regula-
tons of the general government make
its sale under its true character prac-
tically certain, and those regulations,
supplemented by some such law in the
several states as was passed by our
last Legislature, would make it pretty
certain that it would not be consumed
by people except it was known for what
it is. That the act of congress has been
pretty effective is shown by the figures
given above, and they further show
that the law has informed some people
where and by whom oleomargarine is
sold who did not know before.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Jersey Beef, Veal and Oxen.

The beef of Jerseys has delicious
flavor, but, like that of all the real
milking breeds of cattle, it will not
thicken on the rib or fill out along the
loin. When fed for fattening, the
Jersey COW or steer will fill up inside
and the tissues and muscles will be
marbled with fat, or, more properly,
filled out. This makes the flesh juicy
and exceedingly palatable, but it does
not add so much weight, however long
they may be fed, as when the fat will
bunch up along the back and thicken
on the rib and all along the loin. 1t
takes beef breed to do this, Just as it
takes the mutton breed of sheep to lay
fat on the ribs. 1t does not pay to feed
a Jersey very long for beef, as the in
crease in weight is not sufficient. They
always weigh better than they look, or
than any one would Judge from handling
them, and the beef is of better quail
ity than one would suppose from the
outward appearance. Jersey beef can
be recommended, and so can the veals.
The latter are generally smaller than
those of other cattle, as the calves are
born small, but the meat is very choice.
1t will not pay so well to make steers of
the males for beef as for oxen. When
the oxen can be turned togood account
as workers they are valuable, as they
make such active cattle for the farm
and on the road. They are the best
rivals for the Devons, which now stand
at the head.-Ne0 York Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Afraid of Spiders.

Carrie jumped from her seat because
a spider was spinning down before her
from the ceiling. "They are such
hateful black things!" she said.
'They are curious black things" said
Aunt Nellie. "They have eight fixed
eyes" Dear me! And may be she
is looking at me with eight of Them
groaned Carrie. They are very fond
of music" 81 shall never dare to
sing again, for fear they'll be spinning
down to listen" "They can tell you
if the weather is to be fine or not If
it is going to storm, they spin short
thread; if it will be clear, they spin
long one" "That's funny" They
are an odd family" Aunt Nellie went
on. 81 saw one on the window-pane
the other day. She carried little gray
silk bag about with her wherever she
ran. She had spun the bag herself.
When it burst open ever so many tiny
baby spiders tumbled out like birds
from nest and ran along with her.
Perhaps you didn't know that the
spider can spin and sew too. She
spins her web, and she sews leaves
together for her summer house"
what queer thing a spider is, /" said
Carrie, beginning to forget her dislike,
Yes; and she has a queer sister in
England who makes a raft and floats
on pools of water upon it in search of
flies for the family, who live under
water in n diving bell, which she
weaves herself" How l should like
to see her!" " Maybe you would
rather see the one in the West Indies
who digs a hole in the earth. She
lines il with silk of her own making
and fits a door to it which opens and
closes when the family go in and out.'
Yes" said Carrie, how delightful"
But you would be afraid of the in
mates" " Perhaps not, now l know
their family affairs. Our Little Ones.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Skilled Farm LabOrers.

No idea has done more to repress
farming progress than the idea that a
farm laborer need not be skilled, that
brute strength is the main requisite
This never was true, and is less so now
than ever before since improved ma
chinery has to be handled. But even
in handling such old-fashioned imple-
ments as the axe and hoe efficiency de-
ponds as much upon skill as upon mus
Gle. 1t is by no means the largest or
strongest hired man who will do the
most work in day. And when help is
hired that is entirely unused to our
methods of farming its ineXperience
greatly detracts from its value. The
truth is that farming is a trade that has
to be learned if the workers at it would
be effective. 1t requires knowledge
and skill in a far larger number of
things than most other kinds of bust
ness. In fact, it is never fully learned.
The oldest and most successful farmer
is generally the most ready to learn
something new about his business, and
it is usually this habit which he has
kept up through his life that has given
him his success. That farmer shows
only his limited idea of his business
who thinks that he knows so much
about it that he cannot learn anything
more. And though skill in farm help
is desirable, it is sometimes better in
rough work to have green hand, will
ling to do as he is told and to learn,
than one self-conceted with the idea
that he knows everything already.
Much depends upon employers. Some
are themselves so conceited that few
hired men are willing to try to learn
from them. CultiUatOr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Treatment of Kicking Cows.

l have tried about all the infallible
methods for breaking in heifers, kick
ing cows, ETC., that l have read of, with
very limited success. / find that a
COW that has sore teat or is otherwise
vicious and means to kick will do il
without regard to most kinds of letters.
The simplest preventive method l have
found is strap and buckle of good
length. l buckle the hind legs together
just above the gambrel joints; wrap
the strap around the opposite leg twice
to prevent it slipping down during a
struggle; then cross it between the legs
and buckle up tightly. A cow can stand
easy and after few struggles will be-
have herself. The stool or bench | use
to sit on is for no other purpose. If a
cow is "jawed" and mauled with q
bench for every little misdemeanor she
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Some Interesting Parents.

In a larger and remarkable group of
animals, represented by the kangaroo,
the young when first born are exceed
ingly minute and absolutely helpless, so
tender, in fact, that they would perish
Immediately if there was not a special
provision for them. This we find in
the pouch, from which these animals
and their allies are called marsupials.
The kangaroo, the opossum, the wom-
bat and number of others represent
them. AS soon as the little kangaroo
is born it is placed in the pouch, where
it remains until quite well grown, and
one of the most comical sights is to see
a huge kangaroo mother moving along,
with the little head of the baby reach
ing out of its resting-place after grass;
in fact, feeding as it goes along. The
little ones leap from the pouch with the
greatest ease, and at the slightest alarm
dart back, often diving in just in time,
as the powerful mother takes mighty
spring and goes bounding away. In
former times there was kangaroo as
large as an elephant, and if it carried its
gigantic baby in pouch the sight must
have been singular one. Now, curl
ously enough, while the kangaroos are
the true marsupials, their pouches con-
tanning the organs of nutriment, there
are many other and widely different
animals which protect their young in a
seemingly similar manner, and an inter-
esting example is the little sea-horse,
which is so familiar in collections and
not uncommonly found on the eastern
coast. The proper name of the little crea-
ture is hippOcdmpuS, and it is fish
about four inches in length, although but
few would consider it fish at all. In the
first place it stands upright in the water,
moving forward by the screw-like Vi
brations of its back or dorsal fin, which
is a most beautiful object in motion.
| The tail ends in point, without a fin,
and is prehensile, or has the power of
grasping, Just as has the tail of some
monkeys or the opossum. The head of
the little animal is remarkable in its re-
sembance tothat of horse, and all in all,
while the hippocampus almost heads the
list of fishes, it is a singularly unfish-
/ like animal, as we understand the term.
Those that | have found have been on
the Florida reef in the Gulf of Mexico,
but they live in many seas, and are
almost always found clinging to the sea-
weed, with their little tails tightly wound
about branch and looking so much
like it that only the sharpest eyes can
distinguish it. Indeed, some spe-
cies, and particularly one from Aus
tralian waters, have long streamers
growing from the various parts, giving
the animal the appearance of mass of
sea-weed floating along &C. +. Holder,
/ in Wide 1Uoke.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

THE continued wet weather of last
week damaged a good deal of late-cut
grain which was out, as well as consid-
cradle rowen cut the last of the week
before. Those fellows who left their
grass standing until well into August
will not be obliged to cut over the
ground the second time this year, as
those have to who cut their grass in
June or early July. We were told by
friend last week that there were whole
meadows on the west side of the noun
tain where not swath had been cut; ;
that help was so scarce that the owners
could not get it done. Yet there are
poor in the cities who live in want who
might live well in the country if they
would come and earn their bread as
other people do.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
will soon develop into dairy kicker
Cor. Rural NeU Yorker.
A Test of Keeping Qualities.

/ had at the New York dairy show
last week three samples of butter-one
from cream raised by the Cooley proc
ess, one from deep cold open setting
and one from the separator process. 1t
was so cool here that did not think of
protecting it from heat. The result
was that it melted down and was in
jured very much. But | am glad of it,,
as by that we plainly see the keeping
qualities of each kind. l took fourteen
creamery and butter men in to see it,
Mr.. Williams of the Cooley creamers
among them. They all pronounced the
separator butter the poorest and the
deep cold open setting the best, al
though there was but very little differ
ence between that and the Cooley. Mr.
Williams was willing to admit that the
open sample had stood the severe test
the best. r. Hozen, in Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

Mr.. S. L. Town of Montpelier, no.
ticing the inquiry in our last weeks
issue, "What causes scabby potatoes?"
gives it as his opinion, confirmed by
experience, that the cause is the use of
green manure in the spring. If this
must be used he would pillow the land
in the fall and harrow in the manure
thoroughly, but he would not apply it
in the spring. If land is to be fertilized
in the spring for potatoes he would use
only well-rotted or horse manure. He
thinks that potatoes are surer crop
when planted not earlier than the Goth
of May.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31

Is the Rural Vermonter coming TO be
a railroad organ? 1t seem so by the
tunes it plays. In late issue DR..
Hoskins-not one of its editors, but
the regular contributor who wags the
dog"-says of Governor Smith:
Personally entertain the most friendly
feelings toward him. AS a newspaper man
1 interviewed him on this subject some
fourteen years ago (whle editor of the Yer
mont Farmer and got the impression that,
though various entangling alliances with
express and other interests rendered it I'M
likely that he could do much for the farmers
as a railroad president, he yet practically,
as a man, admitted the justice of extending
the "butter-car principle to all small ship
ments of farm products, if it could be done
under some general system.
How can one pipe more pleasantly
than that? In the same issue the gen.
eral and railroad editor, speaking of a
conference of Governor Smith with the
Williamstown folks relative to the ex-
tension of the Central road from Barre
to Williamstown, SAYS:
We understand that satisfactory conclu-
sion was reached, and that Governor Smith
is now ready to begin the construction of
the road The $4,000 voted by Williams
town to aid the enterprise was conditioned
upon the completion of the road by Novem-
BERG, 1887 The town, it is represented is
willing to extend the time and will I'M
doubtedly vote to do so. If it shall make
the extension, we understand that work
will thereupon be begun and the road
pushed to an early completion, a consumma-
ton that will bring congratulations to the
people of that enterprisng town.
Great Caesars ghost! Vote 100000
to have the road built and then extend
the time for them! Williamstown is a
farming town, yet they seem wonder
fully anxious to assist the railroads in
their unquestioned purpose to reduce
the farmers of Vermont to a condi-
ton of practical serfage," which the
said editor but few weeks ago declared
to be their intention. And the road
pushed to an early completion evil
bring congratulations to the people of
that enterprising town!' Well, well!
Congratulations on progress toward
practical serfagel Verify, that's organ
music, no mistake-regular fugue, and
full bellows.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
OleOmargarine.

Since the oleomargarine law went into
effect the expectations of this product have
largely increased. For the three months
of November, December and January in
1886 and 1867 the exports of oleomar-
garine were respectively 5330,9lS pounds for
the first period and 49, lag, 22S pounds for the
second. If the law has had no other effect
II has at least prevented the consumption
here OF good many million pounds Of
fraudulent butter and substituted the genu-
inc article in its stead. Up to the time
when the law went into effect the manufac-
turers took the naturally brazen attitude of
their class in defyng it, under the impress
sion that it could not be enforced. They
have scarcely diminished the manufacture
of their product, and the large expectations
are probably only an indication, and a
healthful one for legitimate industry, that
they cannot work off fraudulent butter on
the American people. If foreigners want
this stuff after it has paid its tax they are
perfectly welcome to take the entire product.
1t will not be long, however, before the
fraudulent product will be as well under
stood and as unpopular abroad as it is
here.-Americdn Cuitirator,
AT the dairy convention in New York
the editor was classed by the extremists,
who wanted tax which should be pro-
hibitive, as friend of oleomargarine.
We thought then, and believe now, in
the entire right of any person to manu-
facture oleomargarine and to sell it for
just what it is, that all persons who
buy and sell it should do so under
its true name, and that no person
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
Grape-Yines.

Twenty years ago planted vines in
my yard, where had to do great deal
of filing in, and the material employed
was principally coal ashes. Wherever
the ashes came in contact with the
vines we had the largest crop of the
finest grapes l ever saw; the roots
seemed to run riot in the soil to dis
lance of ten to fifteen feet and were a
mass of fine fibres. The grapes were
in large punches that crowded each
other for room, fine, plump, thin
skinned berries, while fruit on vines
from the same aged cuttings, from the
same parent vines planted in the natu-
raj soil, were late, hard and sour. My
varieties were Concord, Catawba and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
The Poor Crops.

While hay has been an immense
crop and corn promises to be almost as
heavy if the frost holds off till the crop
natures, wheat, oats and potatoes are
nearly a failure. Wheat in many in
stances is hardly worth threshing and
oats are reported not above half crop,
while the complaints in regard to po-
tatoes are the worst we have heard for
many years. The tops are dying, or
are dead, and the tubers are few and
small and some are rotting badly. We
had more nearly a tropical than tenn
perate season-plenty of moisture and a
great deal of heat-and that, continuing
uninterrupted by cool nights or days,
gave an atmosphere like a green
house, hot and loaded with moisture.
This seems to us TO be the reason of
the failure of those crops more es-
pecially adapted to cooler season, their
greatest perfection being attained in a
drier atmosphere. An indication that
this may be the case is found in the
fact that the poorer land on north
sloping hill-sides are this year giving
the better crops, while rich meadow
land, ordinarily dry enough but now
wet and mucky, yields scabby, worm
eaten, rotting potatoes. 1t now looks
as if we might be in the condition mar
rated in the college song:
Potatoes they grow small over there, over there
The potatoes they grow small
And they dig them in the fall
And they eat them tops and all over there"
But there will be enough for home
consumption, probably, and if we do
have to eat small ones we shall the
better appreciate the good, large ones
when we get them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
100 Doses

One Dollar. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the only
medicine of which this can be truly said;
and is is an unanswerable argument as to
the strength and positive economy of this
great medicine. Hoods Sarsaparilla is made
of roots, herbs, banks, etc, long and favorably
known for their power in purifying the blood;
and in combination, proportion, and process,
Hoods Sarsaparlla is peculiar to itseD.
"For economy and comfort we use Hoods
Sarsaparila." MRS. c. BREWSTER, Buffalo.
floods Sarsaparilla takes less time and
quantity to show its effect than any other
preparation ever heard Of l would not be
without it in the house." Mrs. C. A. NJ.
HUBBARD, North Chill, n. Y 100 Doses
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-31
,for tbe CHILDREN.
A Baby's Command.

just three years old was our baby
A little town maid was shei
A grass. plat to her meant country,
A fountain the boundless sea.
For all Of her tiny lifetime
Had passed midst the houses high
Whose tops, to her childish fancy,
Were part of the arching sky.
SO one August day, when his sunshp
Was baking the city brown,
We carried her off to the seaside
Away from the breathless town;
Stripped her Of socks and slippers
Regardless of freckles and tan,
And told her to go and frolic
AS only baby can.
But she stood with her wee hands folded
A speck on the sandy shore,
And gazed at the waves advancing
with laundering crash and roar.
We knew that some thought was stirring
The depth of her little brain.
As she listened to Gods great organ
Pealing its grand refrain.
At last in her clear child's treble,
As sweet as a robins trill,
with one little finger lifted
She cried to the sea, " Be still"
All dear little fair-haired baby
Like you in this mortal strife,
There's many one made weary
And stunned with the waves of life.
But the pillows of both, my darling,
Are moved at the Masters will,
And only his voice can hush them
BY whispering, Peace, be still"
Lillian d. Rice, in Pans